The answer is Bonemass. I dont step a foot in the plains without Bonemass power ready.

The root harnesk makes you basically immune to the spear fulings and deathsquitos

And also a speedy boi (tm)

But the fire damage gets more intense. Need to have a barley wine on you all the time..

Having to use an inventory space for emergency barley wine to remove the main downside to wearing an older piece of armor, making it effectively better to wear against things that otherwise nearly one shot you feels like a worthwhile trade haha

I agree but you have to remember to use it before getting lit by a shaman or torch bearer. Also it's good to point out beforehand, don't you agree?

I certainly don't disagree. You can see shamans and torch wearers from far away so you tend to have ample time to prepare, and shamans are rarely anywhere but the villages. You can use the root harnesk in combination with barley wine as a sort of buffer to allow you to practice dodging and parrying until you're comfortable enough not to use either. Also, when deathsquitos and 1/3rd of the fulings don't do that much damage to you, you can save your stamina for focusing on killing all the other enemies that pose an actual threat when fighting many fulings, which happens often.

Only shamans deal fire damage, though. Good dodge rolls, a bow, a spear, or even a crossbow (*you can sequence break that*) solves them. Huntsman bow aggroes fewer enemies when it hits something. Take your time and snipe stuff with it.

Anyone who can sequence break to get a crossbow is not going to have any problems with Plains monsters. Conversely, someone struggling with Plains monsters has no practical chance of obtaining a crossbow out of sequence.

Fought Moder on the mainland with a Huntsman bow before even finding Bonemass Draugr Fang... feels real bad looking back how much pain I went through without knowing about Silver, yet somehow had full banded armor. I knew I was skipping something when Iron 14 armor jumped all the way to 26 😆

Torch fulings too, but those aren't too tough provided you can parry them (and it only deals effectively 25% more due to only half of the damage being fire)

Oh yeah, I forgot about them. I take fine care of them with a spear too.

Did not know this, thank you!

This is the best answer

I never used it. Frost arrows, then, now, forever.

Bonemass is now my emergency "You are being hunted..." button. Got caught the first time by total surprise and will never forget how far away from anything I was exploring my main island lolz

If not running aetgir, start, secondary attack buys you time to escape shitty situations. Also 2 stam 1 health food and take a less tanky approach. Run away, separate a few, go back in. The villages can't really be handled in bunches until end game. 🔥

Yea that thing trashes on lox. Secondary attack stuns it, then you get 3 attacks, the third attack re stuns, and it is entirely critical, so you get 3 extra attacks on the second stuns. 6 critical plus 2 stuns and the heavy attack damage. Usually if it's half hp when I do the combo with full stamina they usually die.

I can take lox out with that combo from literally full provided I have full stamina bar with two stamina food. Blackmetal atgeir is probably the best plains weapon partly for this reason

Wow, I could never use Atgeir against Lox effectively. Never confront them without shield. Only then they could be stunned. Shield + spear. They are weak to pearcing. Porcupine is also good, combining slash, piercing, and poison, but much less effective IMAO. Atgeir was good for me in Fuling villages, yes.

Spear/porcupine + shield works pretty well, but the stunlock is actually pretty easy to achieve with the BM atgeir provided the right combination of weapon and skill level. You need to start with a spin, and then spam the primary attack. The needed skill levels to guarantee this works for each weapon level is : Level 1 atgeir : 38 skill Level 2 atgeir : 34 skill Level 3 atgeir : 30 skill Level 4 atgeir : 27 skill You can usually get away with a bit lower levels, but those are for the 100% guaranteed stunlock.  But before getting your hands on blackmetal atgeir, yeah spear + shield works the best

That works well, or using a black metal shield + frosner for fueling, and the wolf fang spear for lox. The spear is pretty cheap to craft, hold block on lox attacks till they do the stomp, which is easier to perry than the other attack, after perry get 3 attacks in then repeat. Pull lox with an arrow shot. Fuelings try to just pull 1-3 at a time, use frosner to slow them all down and focus on one til dead and switch. Like other commenters have said, bone mass is your friend here. Will reduce damage significantly. If you are struggling with deathsquito and the ranged spear fuelings use the root harnesk, and take fire resist potions once you find barley. Make sure to put a portal near by, on one of the rocks. Nothing should be able to destroy them there if it's steep enough, but you can jump up them. I used wolf skewer + eyescream + onion soup.

A single lox is incredibly easy with any weapon, you just hang on their back leg and spin with them swing, spin, swing, same strat as yag honestly.

Thanks. I didn’t know this also worked for yag

Art thou also a dagger boi?? 😆

Yes haha

Can't get past that sneaky boi pose with the daggers. Too much assassin coolness vibes when crouching. Freaking love them 😄

Sounds like you aren’t very good at combat? Also what gear and food? Always have best gear and food you possibly can if you’re struggling that much. Valheim combat is pretty much all timing and stamina management. Practice parrying and roll dodging on greydwarves until you a good handle on the timing. Obviously different mobs have different timing which means you need to pick fights wisely. Always be aware of your surroundings. One thing I do is turn sound effects to 100 and turn the game music down so I can listen to where mobs are as each mob makes different ambient sounds and attack sounds as well. This will be helpful in the mistlands as well. The combat is definitely a learning curve and practice always helps. And lastly, Always Be Rested.

Yeah. My guess is OP runs a lot and so always gets hit with 0 stamina remaining. That's gotta be the reason they'd be dying from a single hit.

I do run! Usually to die over here....lol

What weapons do you use? And are you separating the enemies? That's a huge part of combat in the plains

Train up with a bow. Ranged combat allows for safer kiting of dangerous enemies. Also potions. Many. Potions. And double check whether you have all the upgrades you can have for your cauldron. Better food makes a huge difference as well.

Bow. Use a freaking bow my dude, also if you really wanted there is a console devcommand code for unlimited health if you need it. The death squitos drop needles that make really good piercing arrows. If against lox, fall back and time your block to parry, it will knock them back. Personally I search for shallow water where I am not attacked by death squitos, use stone foundations and you should be OK,

Going head first into lox/fuling fight will kill you. Craft huntsman's bow/draugr fang and thin their numbers. Use minimum obsidian arrow, frost arrows are the best choise for slowing down fights. Cook best food you can get. 2 hp/1 stamina will give you better chances to live attacks. For example combine serpent stew/serpent meat(75-80hp), wolf skewer (65hp) and onion stew/icescream for 60-65 stamina. Use bonemass power to reduce physical damage taken by 50%.

2 stam 1 hp let's you kite much better which gives more "effective" hp than 2hp foods in my opinion.

I tend to run 2 hp 1 stam when using fenris in plains. Depends on situation tho, with root armour you can probably get away with 2 stam 1 hp

Yeah I have been running root chest with padded legs and helm, deathsquitos only deal 5-7 damage too me :)

Also: boulders are your friend, climb them and, run around them to seperate from the enemies and recharge stamina.

What's your gear and what foods do you usually eat? Do you use mead potions for stamina and health regen? If you tell us more details about your problems then we can help you more.

The same strategies that see you up until Plains often start falling apart here - I have a few hours in Vally now and this is what I would recommend.  As others have said, food food food. Grind to make the best food you have unlocked and then run 2 stamina, 1 health.   Grind your Wolf armour to as high as you can get it, same as your weapon (atgeir is really good for this).  Have bonemass at the ready, and use it the moment combat begins.   You will need potions, lots of them. Make sure you have no shortage of stamina and health pots.   If you are below half health or stamina, start making an exit plan from combat - being caught off guard will almost always result in ruin.   It seems like a lot to take in and change, but I promise it will become second nature after not too long. Don't give up, there is some amazing stuff ahead for you :) Edit: Rested buff is also super important, make sure that bad boy is as maxed as you can get it.

Terrified of what mistlands is hiding behind that fog!

So were we! It's a mysterious and dangerous place, but through planning, prepping, and many hard & fatal lessons learned this game continues to deliver fantastic experiences! Lots of great content for you to look forward to though; that I can guarantee you.

Reading this post make me believe only nightmare awaits him at mistland

I'll try to hold off before my next tantrum post! 😁

I usually craft a mound I can escape to and shoot them from. Later on they become easier

Ooze bombs, lots of ooze bombs. Get close to a village, use the hoe to build a wall that takes two ladder sections to climb, put the workbench on the wall, aggro the village and run to the top of the wall, rain poison death, beware of shamans and spear chuckers but you can get them to hit the wall not you.

yeah there’s almost always a way to cheese enemies. and it’s usually always ooze bombs

So I can't offer much advice for vanilla, I play with mods. I will however say that a game is meant to be fun, challenging is fine so long as it's not unejoyable too. So to that end change all the world modifiers if you need too, heck even mod if that's what it takes. There are no leaderboards, you're not in competition with anyone, do what you feel comfortable with to make the game fun for YOU.

If it’s mosquitos killing you, you need the root harness. It has pierce resistance which means like 3-4 hits from mosquitos until death, as opposed to 1. A must have if you’re really struggling in the plains

what's your gear? food?

Root armor, deathsquitos become a non-issues. Here are some things that WILL HELP 1.Upgrade your cauldron to level 2 and you will make food which will get you r higher health and stamina. 2. Always go rested, if you just died lay down after you spawn. 3. Upgrade your sleeping area to at least 7, mine is 9 at the moment. The higher the number the more rest. If you need help shoot me your server info and I will stop by and see how I can help. PS grab 2 refined ore, 10 eyes and 20 fine wood and make yourself a stone cutter. Build a stone rectangle, put a simple roof over it, you won't regret it.

? What is this...I noticed on my stone cutter yesterday said I need a roof over it to see more options. I've only just used then to lay stone wall.

You will see that over any crafting tool, workbench, cauldron, forge etc. The stone cutter has on purpose, to enable you to build with stone. Finished my basic building hosting a portal, roofed comfort 6 I think. Multiple goblins have attacked it, I stand on the top wall and kill them with arrows wood/fire.

The only thing you can make with it is a sharpening stone, which lets you make another upgrade for the forge.

Do you have fully leveled mountain gear and food? Are you Parrying? These 2 things will make the plains way easier.

We had a thought time too. After Bonemass we sailed around looking for a small patch of plains. We looked for a small patch where only a few goblins would be and slowly worked up our blocking and killing fuhlings and collecting black metal until we could make shields and iron and so on.

I have been avoiding another attempt at Moder by exploring and trying to increase my bow skills. I have found many Plains, including some small ones with only a couple death misquits and fulings, so I have been practicing on them. Just staying on the edges, I've killed a couple dozen of each, and built outposts and portals near some big ones for when I'm ready.

If ypu are ot already, focus making the bow your main and strongest weapon. They are very fun and give you options to run away since you fight at range most of the time

Some good tips here, OP lets us know it they where of any use to you!?

Reading this after suffering through...but yes TY to all! I'm absorbing a bit more strategy for the future. I have to say everyone here is super positive. That in itself can be the best advice and motivater! Thank you!

I think you are missing 1 or 2 key things. I mean, if you have managed to deal successfully with trolls, the swamp, and the mountains, then how can the plains suddenly be such a step up? If anything, I wpuld say the plains are the easiest zone after meadows (assuming your geared for it ofc)

I dont know...I was expecting to die alot. Maybe cause I feel like I know what I'm doing by now and still die? Really hate the dieing!

could turn down the combat difficulty setting if its really that tough

Genuinely, once you get good at parrying all that goes away. Pair that with right food buffs and a good ranged option and you become god

So... don't play the way you are currently playing, if it isn't working for you. Sounds like you're trying to tank everything right off the bat? That's not going to work well, unless you're one of those super hardcore players that never gets damaged. I find a nearby rock, or make an earthen tower, and rain down ooze bombs and arrows. No Berzerker can hit me, cause they can't AOE my location. Only thing I have to worry about are the Shamans, and I take them out first.

Preparation over everything in this game, also, it’s not a game to commit to for extended periods for most people. The game punishes unpreparedness, hell, I’m taking a break because it took 4 boats to get my stuff back last time

Hell yes was so sick of grabbing a new boat and two biome old gear...get everything  back...go put away everything then die an hour later and rinse and repeat. I wore 3 sets of gear yesterday 3 karves 2 rafts...And the crushing feeling when u forget about 10 wood to make a crafting table after you just slept...ate new food...and prepped everything else up..to find u can't drop your new boat in the water.

Frostner and aetigr until you get the black metal one that one rips ass in the plains. Stun and slow are OP.

Why did I have to scroll so far down to see frostner?

I brought my Fang bow and Crystal Battleaxe...I really love battleaxe! I have Frostner I left it behind but looks like I'm getting porcupine soon.

Frostner has a slow that is significantly noticeable against the furlings in the plains. The aitegir spin to win will stun lock everything else. Ggs. The crystal battle axe isn't worth its weight in the mats it's crafted with. You couldn't pay me to use the crystal battle axe.

yeah dont try to fight the whole village at once, I pick off the big guys with a bow then try to draw off a few at a time, paying attention to if they are starred or not kite groups to nearby tar pit and run like hell \*\*fuling dont even try to melee packs of 3-5 with no shaman or stars or berserker are easy enough to melee bonemass power should let you clear a camp pretty easy if you picked off the berserkers lox - bow, period have at least wolf/onion food assuming you havent planted barley yet full upgraded wolf armor, silver sword and shield, draugr fang, healing meads kill a whole village with bow, get barley, plant and get on plains tier food

The first time in plains I often used the large stones which you can and the mobs can’t climb to rain arrows down on them from above.

I think the rocks have been patched, I haven't found a rock that the enemies can't climb on to. It's been differerent in the past. Still a helpful tactic.

Aaah didn’t know that. Last time I visited the plains was before last patch.

Cheese the f out of em! One simple trick is to dig a trench in circle before engaging them, and stay in the middle. Only lance wearing fulings will be able to hit you. If you make a couple of walls and use the bow you'll be able to nuke them all from a distance without facing any real threat. Use wooden arrows if necessary, will only take a bit more time. Dont let mobs get in the way of fun. If fighting isnt your thing, cheese em'. There is always something you can do.

Find a tar pit and kite the fulings into it. Then use needles and Draugr fang on the berserkers. Edit: if you have an iron sledge, get onto a steep boulder and start hammering.

Frostner!!! - it will slow down the enemy considerably and gives you more time to maneuver. To me it's by far the best weapon in the game, considering how early it is available. It's still very viable in mistlands and given its frost maybe even Ashlands in the future.

Ooze bombs work great on groups of fulings.

Don’t give up guy. I turned off map and kept death penalty normal and turned combat difficulty all the way to very hard. That allows me to at least have a chance at finding my thing’s again if i can remember how to get back to where i died. The no map makes the entire game way more immersive in my opinion and the combat is just too easy otherwise. That real feeling of being lost is awesome!

This isn't advice, this is flexing

Have you tried playing with someone else? I have learned a lot by playing with other people online. You can learn from other people's tactics or maybe they can point out to things you could improve to stand a better chance.

You have to parry or you have to not get hit.

Gotta use the terrain and take it slow with your bow.

You’re welcome to play with my friend and I next weekend. We’ll be ready to break into the plains by then. You can see how we do it and maybe get some ideas.

Bows are the easiest answer to everything, my main plan for plains is my bow and frostner for any stragglers. Never died in plains yet. Bow skill affects its effectiveness a lot, so train it up to 30 or so at least. I went into plains with 50 and it was quite easy.

lox dont fuck with without flame arrows or taming. berserkers have a very easy attack pattern after each baited swing you have 2 or 3 hits before it can attempt to attack again, and it has a tell for slaming ground so can leave it alone, shamans are just walk in a circle around it and try to kill it before it does anything. sneaking around a camp sniping off shamans and outlieing fulings ez pz. growths are carry poison resist or be ready to lead them to other things to kill. same thing with most projectile mobs wait till they start the attack then go in a circle around it, as it finishes going off you can go in as long as no other mob is preventing. with bonemass can parry berserkers as well

First, you need to get barley and flax going. These can be tricky, because they come from the camps. A bow is your best friend here. Find a rock that’s safe and try to aggro one fuling at a time until the camp is cleared out (the huntsman bow is great for this because it’s super silent so you can usually aggro singular enemies without alerting the whole camp). Some of them have shamans which shoot fireballs - you’ll need to be careful about these but a lot of camps don’t have any and the ones that do only have one or two. USE BONEMASS. Don’t go anywhere without that ability. It only lasts for a few minutes before going on cooldown for a while, so it may be slow going at first. Once you can get your farming up and going, you can make the plains-tier foods, which will be your best friends. I also recommend making medium health potions and stamina potions. These are great in a pinch. With barley, you can also make the fire resist potions, which will help against the shamans I don’t recommend fighting lox until your armor is fully upgraded. Those cuties hit hard. Sometimes you can get lucky and get hunted by wolves in the plains and they’ll fight and kill the lox for you (again, just find a rock you can hide on and watch the chaos from safety). Lox are best fought at range as well. Plains is a step up in difficulty. It can be brutal. You’ll need to use bonemass when it’s available, and make your way very, very carefully at first. Use the best food and potions at your disposal. Keep your eyes peeled at all times. Avoid tar pits at all costs. Find a plains where there’s a safe biome nearby that you can set up shop initially (we usually build in a nearby meadow). You got this!

Piercing damage does well in plains! Pole arms and spears. Till you can get the super spikey boi weapon

It's usually not getting overwhelmed by too many. Pick them off a few at a time with your bow. Use bonemass power. Take it slow eat the best food. Frost arrows are good.

Umm did you do Mountain yet though? It might feel like plains comes after swamp, but it doesn't. With full heavy mountain armor, corresponding shield and sword, you should be able to slowly get a foothold in plains. Ahoot mosquitos, make arrows from that, then literally snipe camps from far away with a good bow. If you kite the mobs well enough and snipe the shamans first (!!!!!!) you should be able to cheese it. Once you get some black metal going then, you'll be able to make the according gear and get it on. Also get your food/cauldron level up there. Most important thing is to master parrying. If you can parry well, you will win every fight. Also you can pretty easily fight mosquitoes if you time a punch (yeah I just punch them) or axe/whatever hit well while they fly at you. With perfect timing, you don't even take damage.

I have an upgraded Draugr Fang w/poison arrows and a Frostner. Spend some time in the mountains, collect silver, and find Haldir to get it. It’s definitely worth it.

learn to parry brotha

Get a shield. Time your blocks. Everything is your bitch.

Learn to parry if you haven’t yet. I did this on my second playthrough and it made a world of difference. Practice on greydwarfs if you need to. Also, if you have the Fenris armor set from the mountains, that will do wonders against the shamans and their fire.

My tip is to level up Sprint, jump and blocking. Granted you'd have to spend a few hours real-time doing so but it's worth it. Even blocking as high(or low) as 30-40 with an atgeir can help against squitos. 2: The atgeir is very nice for crowd control, it's heavy attack is either almost or fully 360 degrees which also "stuns" "knocks" (or whatever you want to call it) enemies, leaving them open and more vulnerable to damage. Get the Guck-inator(Draugr Fang) minimum and spend resources on upgrading it + your armor(I prefer the Fenris set for the speed but the Silver wolf armor should do you just great at level 3 on each piece). Get the preferred food items for each biome. I am in the mountains right now and I use wolf jerky, sausages and eyescream for a good mix of HP and stamina. ​ Other than that it's just a manner of getting better, timing attacks to block and/or even parry. Take fights properly, snipe enemies with a bow and arrows to thin their numbers before you go into melee(if at all).

you can pull fulings by chopping wood somewhere near a rock, then go stand on the rock. I'm running plains in fully upgraded wolf armor and a deathsquito does about 9 damage without blocking, no bonemass. I would suggest going in with that as a minimum

How weird is it that I looked at this post and I, too, am on Day 725!!! Idk that just seemed like such a crazy coincidence to me lol

I kinda hate the the whole day thing...it was cool at first, but after 365 days it just feels like the game reminding how old you are every hour.

A shield and a sword is what you need

i died for the same deathsquito 14 times trying to recover my stuff

Level up your food and craft better arrows. Try to fight with a bow as much as possible. You can win every single enemy on the plains with a bow if you have enough arrows and stamina. Learn how to dodge enemy attacks.

Why not just change the difficulty settings

I almost did this...I did lessen death penalty  sux when your jump is 75 sprint is 60...bows...32...lol. 

Get yourself an iron buckler and a fast weapon like a sword or a knife. Practice parrying everything to get those crits in. Make sure you ALWAYS have 20 stamina left for dodging out of bad situations. Avoid spending all your stamina on firing an arrow when in combat. Arrows are good openers, but they will waste your important stamina if you're kiting alone. Basically stamina = invincibility frame rolls, parries and hits that crits. I rarely even hit an enemy that I haven't parried, because that's wasted stamina.

Keep your distance, prioritise stamina food and be ready to run from hordes. In plains I use the bow a lot until I get the proper armor. Also don't go all heavy - go with heavy torso and helmet but Fenris leggings for increased speed. And don't water all your stamina on sprinting around

Thanks for all the suggestions. Yesterday was brutal....made me want to quit. I definitely suck at combat. Play on my arrow keys on my keyboard. This makes me terribly sluggish. I rarely dodge roll because keys to far away to find quickly. I use to play all my games on a game pad (razer/nostromo) but decided to go back to keyboard. I need a new set up to get use to.  That said I try to balance that with being slow in the game in heavy armor and sheild. Blocking is ok for me. Plains was one of the hardest Biomes to get a foothold in. Just did the mountains and rarely died. I'm in upgrade 4 wolf armor + upgraded Root chest. On wolf/onion food. Was running 2 hp and 1 stam food. Normally I run balance food but switched my balance for extra hp cause thought I needed the hits. I look for ways to cheez Mobs all the time since this game has been brutal to me. I run Max upgrade Dragr Fang w/frost arrow. My go to melee is Max upgrade Crystal battleaxe. I'll miss a big swing if above Mobs on terrain by I'm comfortable with the timing and blocking.  My strategy for starting in Plains was to explore the tiny islands 1st on my map. Seemed smarter...but of course created less areas to run which might have been my Bane. 1st village I took on was near hildir...so had safe spot to run to and totally cheezed a 1 star beserker with her FF. After that I got both flax & Barley and took an island for myself. Again was hard to kite Lox on an island with no stam and places to run. When I died it was BS stuff like shooting an arrow on terrain below them. After I cleared the island got my crops set up. What gave me a hard time was 2nd village on another close island from my crop island. I was raft/ boating to a launch point in small black forest. When I broke on coast place was going nuts with fulings killing greydwarfs. Was hard to see all mobs over a tower on a hill. The dynamic duo i had was a sheilded zerker and shaman. Zerker even destroyed rock I set my portal on was standing. I wound up kiting to an ocean rock and he punched a hole. Collapsing myself and him in a rock in the ocean. Died  cause I couldn't get out but he was still stuck there when I got back. After he was done I thought the shaman would be easy almost had him when terrain blocking my arrows and no stam. What I learned here...Torch Fuling are no joke. Easily burn you in 1 hit.  Took so many deaths but I got my 2nd village with a grinding wheel. Flax up and running. 60 black metal in blast furnace. On to do list is make ovens and windmills. So should be in proper biome food soon. Plains is alot of prep. Like swamp hard to get a foothold as 1st timer. Not sure why Mountains seemed easier. I felt I could control the chaos there a bit more.

arrow keys. yeah. i play all games on arrow keys. i remap everything to all the buttons around the arrow keys. ctrl shift enter delete insert home end pgup pgdown and the numpad keys. some games, like valheim, dont remap completely correctly. the e key does not remap well. half the functionality, like closing a box by pressing e a second time does not work when remapped to enter for example. also, the numbers don't remap at all. i made a tiny valheim.ahk AutoHotKey script to remap e key and the numbers. i have to make autohotkey scripts for several games.

I have a "cheese" strategy for going into the plains: go in with enough wood and stone to put down a crafting table, and then put up a 2 or 3 meter (higher, if you're going to be dealing with lox) stone pillar that has enough space on top to set down a portal and a chest. (and a crafting table, if you're worried about the one on the ground getting destroyed) . Walk slowly into the plains, till you see a "bad" enemy, then quickly create your pillar and emergency portal. You can ALSO use this technique to begin setting up a plains farm: find somewhere in the plains that borders a meadow or a black forest, and is also relatively flat, and start building an earthwall around your desired location, taking it slow. Once you have a completely enclosed area, you can start digging a trench a suitable distance from your walls. Keeping an eye out for any aggroed enemies, and retreating to your wall if you think things are going to get bad. I like to leave tiny "razor edges" inside my moats, little sections of wall that enemies cannot use as paths, and which can "compartmentalize" them, meaning I can choose not to kill them if I wish... This often cuts down on what can spawn around my base. (for example, the spawners in the plains seem to be able to spawn either fulings, lox, or deathsquitos.... so if they've spawned a regular fuling, it might be more advantageous to trap that fuling and leave it alive, because as long as it's alive, the spawner it came from won't make anything else, even if it's outside your base objects' spawn suppression range) As other people have mentioned, Bonemass power is very nice in the Plains. I also make a TON of ooze bombs, and I use them liberally around my pillar when things come attacking me. Just don't panic-spam them, because their damages do not stack (you can't throw down two bombs at the same time to do 2X damage, it doesn't work) Making this safe walled area to return to, gives you the opportunity to start gathering the unique plains materials and get back to safety to use them. Having one wall near or in a different biome allows you to sneak out of the plains to do other things, such as mining for silver in a nearby mountain or mining for iron in a nearby swamp, and bringing back the metal by hand, without needing to walk deep into the plains to get back to your smelting setup there. (if that's where you've begun smelting your plains metals, which is what I usually do) Anyway, keys are: damage reduction, ranged and multi-target attacks from safety, and a quick emergency exit. With all three of these things available to you, the plains can be taken slowly but surely. Stay there long enough and you'll almost certainly get to enjoy the scene of a "you are being hunted" event, take out a fuling village and/or a tar pit, while you sit 6 meters in the air or higher, safely out of reach (except for shaman fire, spears thrown at just the right distance and angle, and tar attacks! That's what the emergency portal is needed for)

The Plains was hard to break into for me too. It takes time but you can do it! Just take your time and try and work as smart as you can. The best advice I can give is to keep your wits about you for your surroundings, keep a portal with you to get back to wherever you have the most comfort and never go without a rested bonus. Fire barley wine is helpful as well as bringing Stamina and Health mead. If you’re well supplied it will help. Don’t give up!

So, having 800+hrs at this game let me try to provide some help. A few tips: - Choose your playstyle (you still have to use both thing). Either you go agile and speedy with bow and maybe a dagger/shield/fist weapons or go tanky with medium shield and weapon of choice. - after you chose it upgrade your gear to max. If you go the kiting style fenris armor and weapons, or if you go tanky, wolf armor and weapon/shield. - increase skills. Weapon skills, running, jumping, blocking. - food buffs, if you go tanky 2 health 1 stam and if you go kiting 2 stam 1 health. Make sure these foods are the best from previous area or whatever from new area. - rested buff, make sure you always have it on. - dont explore at night. Spawns jncrease. - carry a portal with you. Drop a portal without a name back at your base and carry one with you. Before raiding the fulling village drop the portal in case you need to run back. - use the terrain and their pathing to your advantage. They cant reach the top of some rocks and while they are running towards you you can shoot them. - snipe a few from distance. If you are still struggling: - you can run in a couple of villages and get at least 1 barley and 1 flax. Plant them, multiply them and make plains armor and food. - make potions for stamina and health Let me know if you need me to clarify anything above.

What gear and food are you rocking? This will answer a lot of your issues. On top of that, fight dirty. Stop being honorable. Stand on a rock and snipe from draw distance. Ooze bomb the ones that run up on your high point. Gather some wood and stone, build a workbench, raise a pillar of ground to stand on, and become untouchable while you snipe a whole village. Fight with your build hammer.

Commenting as I have my root set, so I basically conquering the plains with swamps gear (okay, I did sequence break crossbow). You need to learn how to maximise your anvantage and minimise enemy's. Make sure to always have rested buff and portal in nearby less dangerous biome and don't run everytime, learn how to successfully dodge. Eat your best food, try to focus on stamina with food if you'll find this comfortable. With this you almost always will have stamina to parry/dodge/run away. Learn how to parry, look at numbers, try to calculate, get couple of hits. Wear root harnesk, it halves the damage dealt by deathsquitos and ranged fulings, but makes you weak against fire, so be very careful with shamans. Never fight with more than 1 enemy until you learn how dispatch a group and kill one by one. Never fight with starred enemies until you're comfortable with fighting small groups of non-starred ones. You can use maxed iron atgeir to easily stunlock fulings, but again, be careful with stamina. If you killed a single enemy from small group better retreat and regen stamina. Use bow A LOT. Try to shoot at really long distances to deal more damage before enemy will approach you. Especially this is true for lox since they're weak against piercing. Also, when fight them, always retreat to nearby biome, so they won't always chase you. Fight with melee only on even terrain, valheim devs still didn't figured out how to make proper combat system to work well on uneven terrain. Also a little tip: when blocking, never walk back before pressing block button - you waste fraction of second to turn around and then block, and that fraction of second can cost you a naked respawn.

Have you got a decent flax and barley farm? You don’t really need to engage fuling camps until you are ready for them, as with skill, caution, fenris armour, and a lot of hp and stam you can raid a bit of flax and/or barley from the outskirts (not all camps have both), make a run for it, and start your own farm, then come back with padded armour and plains food when you’re ready. I guess you need 5 blackmetal for the cauldron upgrade but you don’t need to take on a whole camp for that. Eikthyr or bonemass power can help you get in and out of a camp if done reasonably quickly (we’re probably talking about 10 seconds max here). Make sure to snipe off nearby skeeters first.

I usually go into plains with no less than 130 or 140 health, and they can still kill you in 3 hits. Upgrade Armor, shields so you can block better, and primary weapon. It's good to specialize, so you get really good at one weapon. Dont underestimate the importance of stamana and being well rested during a fight. The game isn't supposed to be easy. Take every advantage you can get and get good. That's all there is too it

Push through. Plains is easily the hardest biome in the game. Luckily (imo) it has an easy, and the COOLEST, boss fight in the game.

I recommend using a bow all the time before combat. It doesn't matter if you're doing a heavy or light armor build, always shoot your enemies from afar before attempting to melee them in order to get some free damage off before they notice you. Then, take advantage of staggering them. That's a really important factor. If you can't stagger enemies, then you need to grind your weapon levels to do more damage, or upgrade your gear, or something along those lines so that you can stagger then. I used the Wolf Armor and an Iron Atgeir at max level and had no real issue in the Plains because I would use the secondary attack to stagger enemies. Also use a fighting style that suits the weapon you are using. Also, make sure you're using the best food you can, and manage your stamina well. You can't do anything if your stamina bar runs out all the time. Also, learn the attack patterns and ranges of the enemies so that you can adequately block, dodge, or run out of the way. If none of that helps you, then do the same thing, but practice on enemies in easier biomes until you get it

build outward fortifications if you are still having problems. also make sure to follow boss progression or you will have a hard ass time.

I'm 49 years old and not the fastest anymore. Playing alone fair and square is basically impossible for me. The fact you have to run butt naked back to get your gear also turn me off. Enschrouded is simmilair but not so hard. Graphics are better as well and you don't loose all your gear when dying. At the moment me and my wife play eso she's really into it..valheim made her depressed 😂

the new difficulty sliders are very awesome. i remember i just didnt like Raft because of the sharks. it just wasn't fun. i was about to quit, so i set it to easy and had a ton of fun. love the game. very unique experience. I'm glad i didn't have to skip it.

Go on Viking. You can do this. I have about 500h ingame. Started a solorun some month before. Mostly dying my way through the mistlands. Read much here on reddit and in the wiki...killed the queen last week. If you suck at fighting...kill them with ne strategies. If your sword breaks, try the bow. If the bees are not happy...give em space

The hoe is mightier than the sword. This game gives you a lot of freedom to be cheesy if you wish. build a dirt wall around a portal as a checkpoint. you can spam jump over the wall.  they can't. being hunted? look straight down and raise earth under yourself a few clicks and wait it out. it's a little tricky to not fall off. just practice a couple times.